Hey, I found a small error I thought you might want to be aware of.
The simulation somehow reported a case where Pittsburgh lost all 3 games in regulation but still won the President’s Trophy. This is of course impossible since they are 3 points back of Chicago.

I attached a picture for reference.

This is really interesting. Thank you Shaun. A bug in my code that is triggered so infrequently. What might cause that? Off to see…

]]>http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?feed=rss2&p=4930“We use the real NBA tiebreakers” my ass.http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=483
http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=483#commentsSun, 14 Apr 2013 20:06:57 +0000http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=483Starting with the 2006-2007 season the NBA changed the tiebreakers so the 3 division winners do not automatically get the top 3 seeds. Instead they where reseeded with the top wildcard to determine seeds 1-4. The site does this part correctly.

Starting with the 2008-2009 (?) season they added the stipulation that when reseeding the top 4, a division winner always takes precedence over the wildcard with the same record. I don’t do this. And it affects the current standings.

Jeremy Halperin pointed this out today (thanks Jeremy). I’m working on fixing it, more to follow.
Update: I believe it is fixed.
Here are the 4 affected teams, using the 50/50 version:

]]>http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?feed=rss2&p=4830I messed up the NFL odds.http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=429
http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=429#commentsFri, 14 Dec 2012 02:07:57 +0000http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=429JP clued me in yesterday that for many of the NFL games the simulation had the wrong team as the home team. That means it was giving the wrong team home field advantage. It’s fixed now, but my error caused the site to show numbers up to 11 percentage points off:

I am sorry,

Ken

]]>http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?feed=rss2&p=4290Spring pledge drive and march traffichttp://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=407
http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=407#commentsTue, 03 Apr 2012 19:31:25 +0000http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=407So far ninety-nine of you donated from one to one hundred dollars, for a total of $1,200.
Thank you. It feels good knowing you think this place is worth supporting.
(don’t worry, the banner ad will go into the vault soon)

Finally

Thanks everyone for adding so many new leagues,
(and Adam for sending in real time updates!)

]]>http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?feed=rss2&p=4070Oppose SOPA and PIPAhttp://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=399
http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=399#commentsWed, 18 Jan 2012 19:23:28 +0000http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=399Hi friends, sorry I have not written for so long.

For the rest of today Sports Club Stats is turned off to protest SOPA and PIPA (learn more at Wikipedia.)

Note I sent my senator:

The internet is the goose that lays the golden eggs.
It also allows US copyright laws to be broken.
But we can not allow SOPA and PIPA to fluster that goose.
We have to sacrifice our copyright holders and change our copyright laws.
Our future is in those eggs.

And how I really feel:

Are you nuts? Don’t fuck with the Internet. It is a good thing. All the bad things you imagine about the internet are nothing, absolutely nothing, compared to how good it is. It is short term wasteful and long term futile to try and control the internet. The RIAA can kiss my ass. They remind me of the priests who got all frantic when William Tyndale first mass produced an English bible. Oh my, read a bible without going through a priest.
They burned him at the stake.

Ken

]]>http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?feed=rss2&p=3990Thank youhttp://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=372
http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=372#commentsSun, 03 Apr 2011 22:37:33 +0000http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=372NHL fans have been very good to Sports Club Stats in March:

And thanks Kevin Hartley, Overdeck, and one other I’ve forgotten for figuring out I must be using last years tie breaking rules in time before I had too much egg on my face. (Finally fixed 2 weeks or so ago.)

Mike gave me the idea months ago, and Alex spurred my on with an email yesterday. Thanks.

I’ll do something for the World Cup when it starts. I don’t plan on getting to the other qualifying groups this time around.

]]>http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?feed=rss2&p=3422Ignore the baseball numbers todayhttp://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=330
http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=330#commentsSat, 27 Jun 2009 12:26:05 +0000http://blog.sportsclubstats.com/?p=330Somethings is broken. I’m off to grab some coffee and then I’ll see whats up. I sound like an addict :)

The historical graphs issue from before is fixed.

[Update: All fixed. The bad numbers this morning where if only 1 team made the playoffs instead of 4]